[bug?] oddity creating table with uppercase initial - Mailing list pgsql-novice

[psql (PostgreSQL) 7.2.1 and 7.3.2 on Debian testing]

Creating a table "Banks" succeeds but then appears not to exist. It does
however show in a \d listing, but won't autocomplete(!) i.e. \d Ba<tab>

On a newly created db,

=> create sequence Banks_id_seq;
CREATE
=> CREATE TABLE "Banks" ("id" integer DEFAULT nextval('"Banks_id_seq"'::text) NOT NULL);
CREATE
=> select * from banks;
ERROR:  Relation "banks" does not exist
=> select * from Banks;
ERROR:  Relation "banks" does not exist
=> CREATE TABLE "banks" ("id" integer DEFAULT nextval('"Banks_id_seq"'::text) NOT NULL);
CREATE
=> \d
         List of relations
     Name     |   Type   |  Owner
--------------+----------+----------
 Banks        | table    | ...
 banks        | table    | ...
 banks_id_seq | sequence | ...
(3 rows)

(The 7.3.2 appears to behave identically except with its listing of the
schema being public in \d)

Should I simply avoid names with uppercase? This seems like a shame.

Paul

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